Hi,
Before the community sighing begins. Yes I've double, triple and quadruple checked that the setting to the server are correct. And googled umpteen hits starting with Account can not be verified - most of them telling me GMail changed their login routine ... No, it's not a Gmail account, it's a regular mail server. Yes, other clients (Evolution, KMail) are able to connect and yes I've tried accessing my mail account through webmail.
I still get "Account can not be verified - are you sure your username or password are correct" in Thunderbird.
Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin?
/Martin S
On 01/28/16 15:48, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Before the community sighing begins. Yes I've double, triple and quadruple checked that the setting to the server are correct. And googled umpteen hits starting with Account can not be verified - most of them telling me GMail changed their login routine ... No, it's not a Gmail account, it's a regular mail server. Yes, other clients (Evolution, KMail) are able to connect and yes I've tried accessing my mail account through webmail.
I still get "Account can not be verified - are you sure your username or password are correct" in Thunderbird.
Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin?
You're talking about a connection to read your email as opposed to sending, correct? IMAP or POP3?
And what do you have set for "Connection Security" and "Authentication Method"?
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 15:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 01/28/16 15:48, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Before the community sighing begins. Yes I've double, triple and quadruple checked that the setting to the server are correct. And googled umpteen hits starting with Account can not be verified
- most of them
telling me GMail changed their login routine ... No, it's not a Gmail account, it's a regular mail server. Yes, other clients (Evolution, KMail) are able to connect and yes I've tried accessing my mail account through webmail.
I still get "Account can not be verified - are you sure your username or password are correct" in Thunderbird.
Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin?
You're talking about a connection to read your email as opposed to sending, correct? IMAP or POP3?
Well yes, IMAP and it's in the setup wizard thingy.
And what do you have set for "Connection Security" and "Authentication Method"?
STARTTLS and Password.
/Martin S
On 01/28/16 16:43, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 15:59 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 01/28/16 15:48, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Before the community sighing begins. Yes I've double, triple and quadruple checked that the setting to the server are correct. And googled umpteen hits starting with Account can not be verified
- most of them
telling me GMail changed their login routine ... No, it's not a Gmail account, it's a regular mail server. Yes, other clients (Evolution, KMail) are able to connect and yes I've tried accessing my mail account through webmail.
I still get "Account can not be verified - are you sure your username or password are correct" in Thunderbird.
Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin?
You're talking about a connection to read your email as opposed to sending, correct? IMAP or POP3?
Well yes, IMAP and it's in the setup wizard thingy.
And what do you have set for "Connection Security" and "Authentication Method"?
STARTTLS and Password.
Have you tried SSL/TLS instead?
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:10 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin?
You're talking about a connection to read your email as opposed to sending, correct? IMAP or POP3?
Well yes, IMAP and it's in the setup wizard thingy.
And what do you have set for "Connection Security" and "Authentication Method"?
STARTTLS and Password.
Have you tried SSL/TLS instead?
Yes, and the same thing happens.
/Martin S
On 01/28/16 18:26, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:10 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Any ideas before I apply to the loony bin?
You're talking about a connection to read your email as opposed to sending, correct? IMAP or POP3?
Well yes, IMAP and it's in the setup wizard thingy.
And what do you have set for "Connection Security" and "Authentication Method"?
STARTTLS and Password.
Have you tried SSL/TLS instead?
Yes, and the same thing happens.
Two more things....
Which port are you using? With SSL/TLS I would try using 993
Also, depending on how you've configured the IMAP sever, you may want to try 143 with NONE and Normal Password.
Your IMAP server it is the "Courier IMAP" server?
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Also, depending on how you've configured the IMAP sever, you may want to try 143 with NONE and Normal Password.
Hmm weird, that worked....
Your IMAP server it is the "Courier IMAP" server?
Yep, old and venerable =)
/Martin S
On 01/28/16 22:19, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Also, depending on how you've configured the IMAP sever, you may want to try 143 with NONE and Normal Password.
Hmm weird, that worked....
You may want to check the settings in Evolution and Kmail to see if maybe they too are using those settings.
Your IMAP server it is the "Courier IMAP" server?
Yep, old and venerable =)
It has been over a year since I last worked with that server. In the back of my mind I seem to recall issues with setting up ssl, etc. to work properly. Just a nagging feeling and I couldn't tell you what I ended up finding.
On 28/01/16 15:33, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 01/28/16 22:19, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 18:45 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Also, depending on how you've configured the IMAP sever, you may want to try 143 with NONE and Normal Password.
Hmm weird, that worked....
You may want to check the settings in Evolution and Kmail to see if maybe they too are using those settings.
Your IMAP server it is the "Courier IMAP" server?
Yep, old and venerable =)
It has been over a year since I last worked with that server. In the back of my mind I seem to recall issues with setting up ssl, etc. to work properly. Just a nagging feeling and I couldn't tell you what I ended up finding.
Well thanks for providing tips on stuff. I'll look into this a bit more tomorrow.
/Martin S
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